Dec. 25, 2024

Phasers Set To Stun: Lower Decks S5.E10 The New Next Generation

Phasers Set To Stun: Lower Decks S5.E10 The New Next Generation
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Season 5 Phasers Set To Stun

On "Phasers Set To Stun," we recognize the popularity of all things Star Trek, with a look at the television shows, animation, movies, and more. On this week's episode, our crew discusses the bittersweet end of Star Trek: Lower Decks with it's final episode. Join us for a recap of episode 10, The New Next Generation.

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Space the Final Frontier. Join us for a bold conversation

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our prime directive to recap our favorite Star Trek shows,

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both new and old, to engage and debate about all

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things Trek. Prepare to energize with Phasers Set to Stunt.

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to another episode of Phasers

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Set the Stun, where we continue to show our love

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for everything Star Trek in this ongoing series from a

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film by podcast which focuses on every quadrant of the

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expanding universe of Trek by covering television, animation, movies, directors,

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and much more. Plotting the course as always is your

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co Trek crew. I'm David Burns.

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Scott Hoffman and I'm Wayne whited.

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Read Alert you lower deckers. This episode is full of spoilers,

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so if you haven't seen it, please go do so

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and then come back to join us. Well, we have

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sadly reached the end of a wonderful ride with the

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USS Soritos. Episode ten, The New Next Generation, written by

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Mike Mahan and directed by Megan Lloyd. Megan has done

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a lot of stuff this season, guys that I have noticed,

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and she has done a fantastic job, and she does

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it again in this episode. But before we dig into it, Wayne,

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what was this episode all about?

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Continuing on from the events of the last episode's cliffhanger,

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Lieutenant Boemler has received a message from the alternate Universe

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and with it a mission. The USS Siritos must close

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the rift before their reality and all other realities are

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completely destroyed. Things aren't going to be easy for them

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when the Klingon brothers Maha and may Lore show up,

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pursued by a fleet seeking revenge against them. It's a

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race against time and with reality changing around them every second,

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it will take the expertise of every member of the

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crew of the USS Siritos to save the multiverse.

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Gentlemen, there are many things to love about this episode,

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but the one thing that I like to point out

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is that it brought the best out of the crew

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and really centered on the core characters, which is what

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we needed. Ye You know, this episode truly gave us

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what we needed without overloading it and leaving us with

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this wanting more from this crew, but still making us

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feel satisfied. You know it really to me, it really

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felt like the series finale all good things with the

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Next Generation, where it just left it open and you've

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got you could have more coming down the road, which

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I hope we do have, because there's oh much goodness

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in this episode. The whole series has been fantastic, but

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this episode just, man, it just had me on the

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edge of my seat wanting more and wanting more, and

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just seeing where they were going to go with it

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and their closing on it just was fantastic in my opinion.

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What do you guys think?

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Yeah, I mean they it was expertly written, perfectly directed.

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It's the It's the epitome of what I think really

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works about Lower Decks. It's the the unexpected relationships that

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work well together. They managed to wrap up a finale

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for a series that's had fifty episodes, which I think

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is amazing in and of itself, But it.

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Was so.

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Jam packed with this epic finale, but it breezes right

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by in thirty minutes that in and of itself is amazing.

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But I've watched this two or three times already, and

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it doesn't seem to skip a beat. It doesn't seem

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to leave you wanting more. You know, in that they

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you know, it seems like they missed something. It's a

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little bit more like I can see exactly where they

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could go with this, which is ironic because of the

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portal there next year. There's so many possibilities so they

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can do.

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You know, the pacing was perfect in this episode.

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It wasn't Yeah, yeah, you know, I'm glad they gave

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it a little extra time too, and let the run

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time run over a half hour because it needed it.

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Like you said, it wasn't crammed. But I'm very satisfied

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with how it ended. A little surprised, but very satisfied.

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You know, over the last nine episodes, nine podcasts we've

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done over this season, you know, we we talked about

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not seeing much of this, this overlying seasonal story that

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we knew was taking place, but we had no clue

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at bathtball Us. You know, here we got in this

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final episode. You know, we got elements of practically every

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episode that came before it this year, it all came together.

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We got we were getting pieces of that story and

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we didn't even realize it.

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That.

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I love that. I thought that was actually brilliant the

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way they pulled that off.

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Yeah, I agree with that. Wayne. I felt like at

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times we're getting a little lost and like where are

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we going? With this season. This is it. But then

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when they wrap it all up, it isn't a you know,

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wrapped up a nice bow for us because it's perfect.

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Yeah yeah, all the threads connect. Yeah right, we come

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back with this satisfying connection to each of them.

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There were a.

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Couple that kind of puzzled me, like when the uh,

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the guy who drops out of the ceiling in Sick Bay.

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There are little things like that's I forget what that is,

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but I kind of want to go back and watch

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the rest of it now right there.

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There were a lot of little gags and stuff. I mean,

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you have to watch this episode quite a few times

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to catch catch all of them, and you'll still miss

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some O And there were a lot of a lot

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of callbacks to just this series, which I like. I'm

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glad that they didn't bog this down with a lot

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of continuity, with a lot of guests appearing ins and

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things that they centered on the lower decks and that's

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what it is seeded. We didn't get another repeat of

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like Enterprises finale. I'm so happy about that.

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Yeah, No, I completely agree. I mean I felt like,

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you know, we we we focused on the main core

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of these characters, that we've grown to love and watch

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over these five seasons, and they did that perfectly in

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this episode. And it's everything that I wanted, to be

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honest with you, I always talk about. I think last

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up this week we kind of talked about the animation.

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The animation this one was phenomenal. Yes, the whole the

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whole Klingon ships, the fighting, Oh yeah, that was all

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absolutely so well done. It really was.

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Even the cleanon Captain's little dog. Yeah, that looked like

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that was like prime Disney.

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Kind of thing.

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That had me laughing. It was like the tar version

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of a shihuahuah. That thing was ugly.

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Yeah. When a screen He's like, they're like the full screen,

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Oh great, and yet you can see it becoming like

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a plushy right yeah.

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Oh yeah, definitely absolutely good.

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I get a change that.

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I'm sorry ahead, okay, but I just wanted to say

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that opening shot with the Klingons when they were approaching

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the rift. I had a lot of vibes all during

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this episode and start Trek in the motion picture.

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They yes, they did a.

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Lot of emulating these shots from that film, and.

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I love that, Yeah, said exact vibes. I was getting

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too Wayne, so I think that's exactly what they were

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going for. That's spot on for sure. One of the

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things that I laughed hysterically the last episode, and I'm

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kind of glad they revisited was Boemler getting the message

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on the tablet and freaking out again. You know when

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they showed that in its entirety, and you knew what

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they were doing when they went back, you know, they

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were all like, you know, having a drink and stuff

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like that, and you knew that, Oh, this is kind

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of like right before he gets that message on the

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travelet and then when he lost it, you just hear

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him going off in the distance just screaming. I laughed

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so damn hard at that scene, man, just because of that.

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Yeah, the voice telling in this is top notch. I mean,

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specifically Jack Quaid, Right. It would be amazing to watch

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any one of these cast members, you know, specifically Boimeler

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and Shacks. I'd love to be there in the recording

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studio just to see the footage of them, you know,

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live action doing these freakouts, right.

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I mean, you'd have to be laughing, right, You're you're

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you're the person that's recording the audio. You've got to

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be laughing hysterically and listening and watching these guys, right, Yeah,

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a lot of fun.

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Yeah, I'm intentionally gonna be Jonathan Frakes and do a

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two take and just say, yeah, that was great, Jack.

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You went wailing around for like ten minutes. Can you

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just do that again?

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No doubt about it. There are so many good things

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in this episode that we could be sitting here talking

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forever about it. To be honest with you, yeah, just

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giving everybody the proper amount of time, you know, to

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just I felt like like I'm satisfied at the end,

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But it's like, can we please have a movie with

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these characters? Oh?

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Yeah, please?

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Can you know if you want give us a movie

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on paramount plus if you want to go live action

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with it, I would be okay with That would be

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tough to do because there's a lot of stuff that

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works an animation that might not work in live action.

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But we've had a little bit of a live action

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you know, came over to Strange New Worlds. But there's

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so many ways that could go with it. I mean,

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you know, jumping a little bit ahead of the whole ending,

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that opens up the door for anything, you know, in

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our dimensional travel now, you know Captain Freeman. You know,

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she's funny enough on Starbase eighty now, but I had

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a feeling that's where that was going to go, even

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though when that joke popped up earlier in the season.

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But you know, there's so much they could do with

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that well, and I hope they do revisit that because

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that would be very interesting.

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It shows how much they clearly have to love Deep

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Space nine, right by having starbas Ad be right there

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at the edge of the rift become liaisons to an

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unusually important gateway, like, yeah, make that into a movie,

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or just agree make a movie about something completely different,

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but just have that be a part of it still

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be satisfying.

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I had that same feel too. I mean it felt

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like just like Deep Space nine, and I know that's

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where they're going for you know, the way this episode

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really changed the whole course of Star Trek and it's

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exploration that it's that's brilliant. You know, they now have

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all of reality to explore, you know, that's it's mind blowing.

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I mean where they could take this, you know, and

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the fact that Starbase eight is now the guardian of

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the of the rift and that she's in charge. I

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just I hope we see more, and I'm pretty confident

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that we will. I don't think this is the end

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we'll see of Lower next it's the end of having

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seasons of it. But I'm sure these characters will appear

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again on Scream.

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I'm sure we'll talk about a little bit of this

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in the Easter Eggs coming up. Wayne. But you know,

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when the ship kept changing, man, I'm telling you, that

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was fantastic because I'm sitting in the anticipating what else

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is it going to become? What else is it going

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to become? You know, and then it just went when

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I felt Enterprise D and then it's just like, oh

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my god, you know this, this is awesome. You know,

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keep keep doing this. And you know, I think, didn't

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we get a shot of Enterprise EE for the first time?

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Yes, yes we did. It was at the end of

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the episode. Yeah.

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So it's so cool that they cram a lot of

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the stuff in here, and you know, going back to

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watch it, as you said earlier, you should go back

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and watch this episode two or three times because I

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guarantee their stuff you've missed.

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And there was a shot at the way at the

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end when just before the Seritas left where they panned

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over the Enterprise E to the Seririto. So it reminded

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me a lot of that shot from I think it

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was Star Trek four or five where they panned over

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the Excelsior and there was the Enterprise A. I love

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that because it shows that, you know, yeah, while the

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Enterprise has been the ship that we followed so many times,

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there are other ships in the Star Coming fleet that

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have their other stories. And that's what Lower Decks has

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given us, is given us the story of the Cerritos,

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the story of another ship, and I love that. I

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love exploring what can be done with the Star Trek

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universe like this.

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You've got to give it to Titmouse animation aside from

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the individual animators that are doing it, but the fact

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that they had to cycle through so many different ships

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on the outside, but then they also had to cycle

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through so many ships at the same speed on the

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l cars on the inside. Yeah, with all that detail,

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it's kind of like, all right, draw this entire ship

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the layout the blueprints, Okay, now do a whole different

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one to replace it. Beyond for about three seconds. Yeah,

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it's it's done perfectly.

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It was when they cling on ship turned into like

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that ancient clingon like vessel in an ocean off. Yeah,

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it's gonna happen to us.

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Well yeah, well I love Who's lens that Doctor to

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Anna had the line, why isn't their ship transforming? Well

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it probably is. Clean outs have hardly ever update their designs.

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They always wanted them to look like a big stupid bird.

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Yeah like that. That's right, though, It's true.

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Something that caught my attention or kind of came to

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mind the fact that they're positioned outside star Base eighty.

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So not only did they save their own reality, so

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in that sense, they're not only you know, pioneering frontiers.

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They can explore their big heroes because they save their reality,

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but they're also pioneering Lily Sloan's reality, their version of Starfleet.

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But they had been exploring just kind of willy nilly

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with these holes that had to be sewn up. Now

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they've got stable technology, which is the crux of their

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entire fleet, you know that and of itself has got

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to be Like I mean, when I saw Tendy a

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little bit later and she still had just one pip,

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I'm like, seriously, after all this.

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Just have a pip.

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Man them all pips.

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Give them all pips for crying out loud. They've learned them.

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You know. It's one of the scenes in this episode

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that I absolutely love and it just shows you the

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growth of the characters. Is when Boimer and Mariner are

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talking to Captain Freeman and Captain Freeman basically you know,

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believes in them, trust them, and just just go with it.

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Go you know, you guys are in charge of this,

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go for it, and they're kind of like taken aback

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by it, especially Marion, like, uh, what, you know, if

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they've grown to that point that they can be thrusted

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in this stuff, they've proven it, so go for it.

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And I love that moment. I really did.

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And speaking of growing, you know, one thing I want

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to bring up is the character of Rutherford and this episode.

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You know when when this when the episode started, I

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wasn't sure what exactly they were doing with him. You know,

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he spent the first half of the episode complaining he's

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he's he's mad. You know, it seemed very off character

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for him at the time, but then I'd forgotten that

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earlier this season, you know, he was having trouble connecting

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to the soritos with his implants. Then I slipped my

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mind completely, but you know, it ended up with showing

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how much he has grown when he realized he didn't

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even need those implants to be a good, a great

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starfleet engineer.

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You know.

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It links his story to the rest of the lower Deckers,

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which we've seen all season, the growth of these characters

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and the way they discover their true selves. I love

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that that ending, That that great wrapping up for his character.

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But he would without it without.

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Right, that shocked me a little bit. Well, it took

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me back to that episode where we meet kind of

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his past self for his other self. But yeah, he

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had a great line of dialogue. I don't know exactly

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what the words were, but he basically says, there is

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no better ship for this situation that the Critos has

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specifically made to adapt, Like they turned into a sovereign

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class and they're like, oh, we'll have to settle for it,

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I guess, but he's like, no, we want to be

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the California Class because it's what can adapt to the situation,

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what can help them get through these what do they

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call them Shortinger's field. Yeah, a little bit there, just

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being able to adapt and Rutherford knowing that it isn't

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him that has to change, he needs to kind of

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accept the ship.

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Yeah, this this show has a lot of good one liners,

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and they've they've carried that on over and over and

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over throw the seasons. There's not two mini shows that

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you can hear the words all hands braced for weird

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and believe it and understand it and go with it

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because it's perfect for the show. It really when Captain

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Freeman yelled at I was like, are you kidding me?

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And I just started laughing because that was hysterical and

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it happened so fast that if you weren't paying attention

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to it, you were going to miss her line. But

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I thought that was that was fantastic. But even when

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Shacks realized how amazing their weapons were and he goes, oh,

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and our weapons are down.

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Yeah, He's like, oh, we got tearing class weapons.

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This is gonna be awesome, but they're down.

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Yeah.

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Well, as far as I was, I was just happy

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that we got two back to back what was it,

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uh Uzani? When the light came over the mountain and

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Jenzo was the truth was uncovered, I was like, back.

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To back, Yes, Sah so so fantastic. Man. There's just

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a lot of stuff in this to watch and listeners.

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If you watch it, go back and watch it again

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because there's so much you're going to see again that

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you would have absolutely missed. There's no about that. How

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do you guys feel about and I'm I'm ecstatic that

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it happened. How are you feeling about Ransom taking over

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the ship?

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I love it. I think it's perfect. Yeah, it seems

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like the natural progression, you know, although I'm not crazy

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about his engage the court, engage the it's perfect.

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Perfect And they were even having that conversation too, they're like,

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what's gonna be? Your saying you know what's going to

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be and it is like engage the court, like oh no, no, no, yeah.

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If we ever have a continuation of this, which I

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really hope we do. Uh, there's no better choice for

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for the captain. Like, you've got the most riggerish person

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on the on the ship. And I say that with love,

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but he's just the kind that's going to be able

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to push the buttons on Mariner and drive Boimler crazy

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with a bunch of you know, neuroseias and whatnot. But

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Jerry O'Connell has done such a great job as Ransom.

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He's probably not a character you're supposed to like all

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that much, but he's he's so fantastic in this I

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got to give him credit.

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Yeah, but we you know, over the season, we've always

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mentioned about how much of a buffoon he can be,

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but he's also proved how great of an officer he's

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been in any of these last episodes. So he'll make

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it down captain.

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Yeah, absolutely, And he brings up the best in people.

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He's the he's the first one that Borneman realized what

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was going on when he thought he's being used in episode,

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remember that's right, and then boilers like when Ransom was

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like no, no, no, he says, you're you're a great officer,

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you know, I you know, I believe you know, and

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that's why I picked you. So Ransom was good with

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that stuff. He really is and he may look like

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a buffoon sometimes but and we've learned that he kind

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of did that on purpose to make people be good

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and do their job. So yeah, I think he's the

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perfect captain to take over this ship. And the fact

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that you know, which I think is funny, that boy

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Marriy Mariner didn't want this competition with each other to

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become the first officer of the three toast. But I

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love that aspect too. I hate the fact that we're

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going to miss out on that. I hope that maybe

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down the road we won't that we'll get to see that.

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But I would love to see that happening because that

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could be some very good episodes. It really could.

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Oh yeah, yeah.

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But I hope it doesn't take too long, too, because

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I know that there are probably some people that might

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still be resistant to it. I would say, you know,

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it takes ten half hour episodes to digest this season, right,

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it doesn't take much to dive into it, and I

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guarantee it's going to be satisfying. You just have to

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give it the benefit of the doubt and dive into it.

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You'll never find more depth in modern Star Trek from

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a place that's totally unexpected and very very original.

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And we've had that conversation a few times, I believe

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this season, where we've talked about how there's a lot

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of people out there fans of Star Trek who just

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don't get of the animation. A look, you know you're

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missing out.

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You really they're missing out of great stories. They're missing

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out of a lot of laughs and a lot of

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returns and Easter eggs are missing out on so much.

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They need to start watching it and ye and embracing

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it as part of Star Trek because it is. It is.

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I completely agree, it's It's been a great ride these

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five seasons. It has been fantastic.

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I know.

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I remember when the season one started coming out and

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I'm like, you know, it's kind of new for Star Trek.

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I mean, I know we had the original animation years

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and years ago, but this is kind of, you know,

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new ground for Star Trek, at least modern Star Trek

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that we were getting an animation. And then when you

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realize the route they were taking, you know, comedy and

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it was about the lower decks. At first, it was like,

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we're you know, how how are they going to do that?

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How are they going to capture that magic that is

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Star Trek in animation and do it as a comedy

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and do it with the lower deckers. Boy, did they

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nail it? Telling you they proved me wrong because at

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first I'm like, I don't think this is gonna work.

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And then I started watching it more and more, and

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then it just really became magic.

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It did right away too, right away, right in season one.

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Yeah, so it's it's fantastic, and I really feel sad

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for those who won't give an animation a chance and

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don't consider it as canon, because I'm sorry, it's cannon.

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Yes, it is, absolutely Yeah, and you're gonna see I

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guarantee you're gonna see the love for this series double

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when people are looking back on it. I think, Yeah,

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there's a lot of people that will have, you know,

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kind of missed the boat. They'll catch up to it later,

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and it's gonna get that kind of renaissance love that

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things like ES and nine get that. You know, Next

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Generation was getting flack when that was first coming out,

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and look what's happening with that.

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So yeah, agree, true, absolutely. All right, guys, Well, let's

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move on to some of our favorite parts that we

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always like to discuss on each of these episodes of

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Lower Decks. So, which character do you think stole the

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episode in this one? Wayne, you kind of gave something

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that I was going to talk about, so I think

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you kind of let it out of the bag on

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a character. So I'm curious for what you is.

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Nah, you're going to be surprised on my answer. Oh okay,

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because I absolutely refused to pick one single character this time.

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I refused because for me, the spotlight of this episode

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which shine the most was the crew of the USS

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Critos as a whole.

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Yeah.

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That the way they came together to solve the solution

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or that the situation, and let's be honest, this was

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a situation that would have been difficult for even the

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Enterprise and their crew to handle. I mean the way

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they found the best of themselves they worked together. That

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was the highlight of the episode for me, the accumulation

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of five years of growing and discovering themselves and they

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all got to shine together one last time. So I

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am going to give a weird answer, and that's the

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crew is.

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I'm not surprised by the answer, actually.

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Wayne, he's putting an hoffmanship for that.

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He is. I'm not surprised by that actually, And I'll

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tell a little bit more on that. Scott, what about.

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You, Well, I'm gonna give an answer to the first

472
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part when you talked about favorite moments. I can't let

473
00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:22.279
it go by. I gotta say cetacean ops. I loved

474
00:23:22.319 --> 00:23:24.960
how much attention cetation ops got like, I mean, think

475
00:23:25.000 --> 00:23:29.160
about that on a starship we have like the Dolphin deck. Yeah,

476
00:23:29.400 --> 00:23:32.319
gotta be gotta be said. For me, so I was

477
00:23:32.359 --> 00:23:34.880
focusing on one character, and for me, I think the

478
00:23:34.920 --> 00:23:39.559
one who had the strongest arc felt like Rutherford. I

479
00:23:39.559 --> 00:23:44.279
don't know that he gets many many mentions like in

480
00:23:44.279 --> 00:23:51.000
this season, but his ingenuity, his willingness to continue to

481
00:23:51.039 --> 00:23:56.960
pursue the solution, and I mean he pumped the rift's

482
00:23:57.039 --> 00:24:00.000
energy directly into the core to transform the rift itself,

483
00:24:01.680 --> 00:24:03.119
and just the fact that he was able to go

484
00:24:03.200 --> 00:24:06.640
through that kind of process of relearning that it was

485
00:24:07.079 --> 00:24:09.559
that he was still in love with the Curritos, he

486
00:24:09.720 --> 00:24:12.759
just didn't know how to work with it anymore, and

487
00:24:12.880 --> 00:24:15.160
once he discovered that, it all fell into place.

488
00:24:15.319 --> 00:24:20.359
Yeah. Absolutely, So for me, it absolutely is Rutherford. I

489
00:24:20.640 --> 00:24:23.039
agree with Wayne, it's it's nice to give to the

490
00:24:23.079 --> 00:24:25.400
whole crew here and they deserve every one of them

491
00:24:25.400 --> 00:24:28.400
because it's been fantastic. But Rutherford really felt to me

492
00:24:28.480 --> 00:24:31.839
that he finally took that step forward to become, you know,

493
00:24:32.079 --> 00:24:34.920
someone else, even though he wasn't. You know, he's losing

494
00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:38.640
his interest, he's getting angry at every single thing, and

495
00:24:38.680 --> 00:24:41.519
even admitting that he's losing his love of the Soritos,

496
00:24:41.519 --> 00:24:43.799
which was kind of taken aback by everybody, like what

497
00:24:43.799 --> 00:24:47.000
what do you mean? And it really felt like, I

498
00:24:47.039 --> 00:24:48.960
see where they're going with this. They're basically going to

499
00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:51.000
say that by the beginning to the end of this episode,

500
00:24:51.039 --> 00:24:53.519
Rutherferg's going to go off on another ship, or it's

501
00:24:53.559 --> 00:24:55.640
gonna or something's gonna happen to this character by the

502
00:24:55.680 --> 00:24:58.279
end of this episode. That's what I felt like. And

503
00:24:58.400 --> 00:25:01.400
but then no, they they tracked on that, and then

504
00:25:01.720 --> 00:25:05.599
when he realized he eternal internalized that it was his

505
00:25:05.640 --> 00:25:09.839
implants that was holding him back and causing this to happen,

506
00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:13.559
and he removes them, saves the ship and the crew,

507
00:25:14.359 --> 00:25:17.880
and just becomes who he should have been all along.

508
00:25:18.359 --> 00:25:21.359
You know, he made that that step forward, and that

509
00:25:21.480 --> 00:25:24.880
really is like, man, this is incredible for Rutherford, and

510
00:25:24.920 --> 00:25:26.519
that's why I had to go with him. So it's

511
00:25:26.519 --> 00:25:30.079
gott I completely agree with you on that. But again,

512
00:25:30.119 --> 00:25:32.640
when your answers was perfect too, it was really hard

513
00:25:32.680 --> 00:25:36.599
to decide because everybody had that Pip perfect moment.

514
00:25:36.640 --> 00:25:39.640
They really you're you're both right. I mean I mentioned earlier,

515
00:25:39.680 --> 00:25:42.640
you know, his storyline and this is great and everything

516
00:25:42.640 --> 00:25:44.240
you said is spot on.

517
00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:47.960
Love the character, Yeah, absolutely, some of it just came

518
00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:50.759
to mind though, Dave, Well, you're saying that I had

519
00:25:50.799 --> 00:25:54.960
forgotten that the first episode of this season, when we

520
00:25:54.960 --> 00:26:00.559
meet the alternate realities, Rutherford Boimler is trying so hard

521
00:26:00.559 --> 00:26:04.400
to become the other Boimler, and we see Rutherford to

522
00:26:04.440 --> 00:26:05.519
the exact opposite.

523
00:26:05.799 --> 00:26:06.039
Yep.

524
00:26:06.599 --> 00:26:09.000
Right, He's struggling with the tech and it's only until

525
00:26:09.039 --> 00:26:11.480
he decides to give it up that he finally founds it,

526
00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:15.759
finds his place instead of diving in so deep to

527
00:26:15.839 --> 00:26:18.039
the tech as his alternate had done.

528
00:26:19.400 --> 00:26:22.200
I think his character grew so much. Everyone's character grew

529
00:26:22.240 --> 00:26:24.519
so much this season, but it was nice to really

530
00:26:24.559 --> 00:26:26.359
see him break out of that too here at the end.

531
00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:29.680
It really did ye. All right, let's get into that

532
00:26:29.720 --> 00:26:31.839
tribal left. Which lower Decker team would you join on

533
00:26:31.839 --> 00:26:34.200
the Sritos for this episode? And I have a feeling

534
00:26:34.240 --> 00:26:36.119
we'll probably all agree on this one, So Scott you

535
00:26:36.160 --> 00:26:36.759
go first.

536
00:26:37.519 --> 00:26:41.440
Mine's Ruthford. I'll double down to experiment with so many

537
00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:45.200
different versions of the Crito's so every time it transforms,

538
00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:48.519
he gets to explore another ship. And I couldn't even

539
00:26:48.599 --> 00:26:51.200
keep count of how many. I'm sure Wayne has an

540
00:26:51.599 --> 00:26:54.960
estimation at least, and the fact that he had to

541
00:26:54.960 --> 00:26:57.480
fall back in love with the California class in the end.

542
00:26:57.480 --> 00:27:00.599
I'll say it again, like to go through that journey

543
00:27:01.680 --> 00:27:05.400
had to be such a powerful emotional moment. You know,

544
00:27:05.400 --> 00:27:07.400
though I am here for that, what about you?

545
00:27:08.319 --> 00:27:09.759
I chose Captain Freeman.

546
00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:10.640
You know.

547
00:27:10.839 --> 00:27:13.880
You know, she's taking command of Starbaks eighty, which might

548
00:27:13.920 --> 00:27:16.440
be a little rough around the edges. You know, the

549
00:27:16.440 --> 00:27:18.240
three of us talked how much we liked that star

550
00:27:18.279 --> 00:27:21.960
bas back earlier this season, but she's starting a whole

551
00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:24.720
new journey for herself, the beginning of a whole new

552
00:27:24.759 --> 00:27:27.559
journey for Starfleet today. It reminds me so much of

553
00:27:27.640 --> 00:27:32.079
when Commander Cisco had first come on board Deep Space nine.

554
00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:35.920
You know, it was terrifying, it was overwhelming, but the

555
00:27:36.000 --> 00:27:39.400
possibilities are are limitless, and I'd want to be in

556
00:27:39.480 --> 00:27:40.200
her shoes at that.

557
00:27:40.680 --> 00:27:42.839
Good choice, I really is. I didn't think about that one,

558
00:27:42.839 --> 00:27:46.880
but that's that's a good Pickwayne. I'm gonna double down

559
00:27:46.920 --> 00:27:50.720
with Scott too and say Rutherford for all the reasons

560
00:27:50.720 --> 00:27:54.200
that we've already given, just growing and coming to terms

561
00:27:54.559 --> 00:27:57.279
what was bothering becoming someone better. I just I just

562
00:27:57.400 --> 00:28:00.680
absolutely would love to have been that character and seeing

563
00:28:00.680 --> 00:28:02.480
that growth, and we all would love to have something

564
00:28:02.519 --> 00:28:06.359
like that happened to us. But again, I don't think

565
00:28:06.359 --> 00:28:10.079
there's any bad pick in this episode. They were all fantastic,

566
00:28:10.160 --> 00:28:13.759
every one of them. You know, getting to even see

567
00:28:14.079 --> 00:28:16.279
to go back to Captain Freeman a little bit there, Wayne,

568
00:28:16.319 --> 00:28:20.720
even getting to see her belief in her daughter Mariner. Yeah,

569
00:28:20.799 --> 00:28:23.480
you know, yes, you see that several times in this episode,

570
00:28:23.480 --> 00:28:25.720
and Mariners still kind of taken back. She's not used

571
00:28:25.720 --> 00:28:28.559
to that, but she needs to come to terms that

572
00:28:28.599 --> 00:28:31.920
she has become what her mother would hope she would become,

573
00:28:32.880 --> 00:28:35.640
and you know, she became herself. But she also has

574
00:28:35.799 --> 00:28:39.279
proven to become an incredible officer, not only for the Soritos,

575
00:28:39.319 --> 00:28:42.279
but for the Federation, for everybody, for Starfleet, all of them,

576
00:28:43.079 --> 00:28:46.440
you know. So seeing that happen too, I thought was incredible.

577
00:28:47.000 --> 00:28:48.880
All Right, Well, let's move on and talk about I

578
00:28:48.920 --> 00:28:51.240
know Wayne's favorite part of this, and I'm anxious to

579
00:28:51.240 --> 00:28:53.839
see what he's got. Let's talk about the Easter eggs. Wayne,

580
00:28:53.880 --> 00:28:54.480
what'd you find?

581
00:28:55.079 --> 00:28:57.839
Well, let's start off with something that we kind of

582
00:28:57.880 --> 00:29:00.440
briefly touched on. When the anomaly hits the kling On ship,

583
00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:03.960
one of the Klingons briefly turns into an early Star

584
00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:07.359
Trek Discovery version of the Klingons. This is the first

585
00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:10.960
time that we saw this look outside of Star Trek Discovery,

586
00:29:11.319 --> 00:29:13.519
which you know, by the third season of that series

587
00:29:13.519 --> 00:29:18.680
they pretty much abandoned that design. The anomaly also transforms

588
00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:21.720
the Cerritos into many other types of ships, as we'd mentioned,

589
00:29:21.839 --> 00:29:24.599
but let's go over them. Of course, you know, the

590
00:29:24.640 --> 00:29:28.480
Critos is a California class, but then it turns into

591
00:29:28.519 --> 00:29:31.319
a Freedom Class, then a Sovereign class, which is the

592
00:29:31.319 --> 00:29:34.480
type of enterprise he is. We have the Galaxy class,

593
00:29:34.519 --> 00:29:37.799
of course, the O Birth class you remember that as

594
00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:39.960
the USS Grisom from Star Trek three, and then we

595
00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:43.119
got the Mirandocrat class that was the US's Reliant from

596
00:29:43.119 --> 00:29:46.079
Star Trek two. Plus we get to see what the

597
00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:51.200
Mirror Universe ISS Cerritos would have looked like. And speaking

598
00:29:51.240 --> 00:29:54.880
of that Mirror universe, that tearing Empire logo that was

599
00:29:54.880 --> 00:29:57.480
seen on the bridge of the is Cerritos, that's a

600
00:29:57.519 --> 00:30:00.599
new design that's only been seen a couple of times.

601
00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:05.119
Once on Star Trek Prodigy second season. The episode that

602
00:30:05.160 --> 00:30:08.839
they did called Cracked Mirror, but it first appeared in

603
00:30:08.920 --> 00:30:13.039
the IDW comic book called Star Trek Mirror Broken back

604
00:30:13.039 --> 00:30:15.839
in twenty eighteen. It's a little bit of different design.

605
00:30:15.839 --> 00:30:17.720
It looks like it's got wings on the side. It's

606
00:30:17.799 --> 00:30:22.240
really cool. The Freedom Class starship in its one nay

607
00:30:22.319 --> 00:30:25.559
Cell was first seen as one of the destroyed ships

608
00:30:26.200 --> 00:30:29.279
at Wolf three five nine and Next Generations Best of

609
00:30:29.319 --> 00:30:32.640
Both Worlds Part two. I don't know how it develops

610
00:30:32.640 --> 00:30:38.200
a warp bubble either. Now, when Relga and her crew

611
00:30:38.200 --> 00:30:42.519
get hit by the anomaly, they devolved into proto Klingons.

612
00:30:43.000 --> 00:30:45.920
That's just like Wharf did. Back during the seven season

613
00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:51.359
Next Generation episode Genesis, we got a reappearance of Lieutenant O'Connor.

614
00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:54.599
This is the man that fell through the portal in

615
00:30:55.359 --> 00:30:59.559
Sick Bay. He is from the first season episode Moist Vessel,

616
00:31:00.359 --> 00:31:03.880
where he had ascended to the Koala of He's now

617
00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:06.200
back after five hours, kind of curious as to what

618
00:31:06.319 --> 00:31:11.359
is his adventures were there. And then, of course, finally

619
00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:13.440
near the end of the episode, we got that brief

620
00:31:13.519 --> 00:31:16.279
parent appearance of the USS Enterprise that was sitting outside

621
00:31:16.319 --> 00:31:19.559
the stable Riff. I just want to mention that this

622
00:31:19.720 --> 00:31:24.240
makes this episode chronologically the next appearance of the Enterprise

623
00:31:24.480 --> 00:31:25.799
after Star Trek Nemesis.

624
00:31:26.599 --> 00:31:30.000
Oh nice. That's a lot of good finds there, Wayne,

625
00:31:30.599 --> 00:31:34.119
well done, Scott. Anything that you Wayne might have missed,

626
00:31:34.200 --> 00:31:34.680
I doubt it.

627
00:31:34.720 --> 00:31:38.559
But hey, well, mine's not an answer as a question.

628
00:31:39.920 --> 00:31:42.119
There was a scene, and I forget which one it was.

629
00:31:42.160 --> 00:31:48.720
There's the bridge was filled with core cast members. There

630
00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:51.920
was one person that was kind of injured in the

631
00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:55.720
Deanna Troy position, but I didn't recognize the character, and

632
00:31:55.799 --> 00:31:57.799
it was almost like this person seems to just kind

633
00:31:57.799 --> 00:32:01.279
of snuck a snuck in out of nowhere, and it

634
00:32:01.400 --> 00:32:02.960
might I feel.

635
00:32:02.640 --> 00:32:06.039
Like, if I remember the scene you're talking about, I

636
00:32:06.079 --> 00:32:11.039
think that might be doctor Tiana. But she's wearing her

637
00:32:12.480 --> 00:32:17.160
pirate outfit. Nope, it's not her. No. Interesting, but no,

638
00:32:17.279 --> 00:32:18.440
I'll have to go back and look at that.

639
00:32:18.440 --> 00:32:21.319
Then yeah, has like a head wound or something like that,

640
00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:23.920
and it's just like, all right, everybody is here. There's

641
00:32:24.039 --> 00:32:26.920
no other crew members on the bridge except for this

642
00:32:26.960 --> 00:32:30.440
one injured guy sitting in Troy's position, And I'm like,

643
00:32:30.839 --> 00:32:31.519
is that kind of like.

644
00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:32.359
A que easter?

645
00:32:32.400 --> 00:32:34.680
Egg or something like that, Like, that's not somebody that

646
00:32:34.839 --> 00:32:36.400
just kind of snuck into the scene and then.

647
00:32:36.440 --> 00:32:38.680
I'll have to go back and take a look at that.

648
00:32:38.799 --> 00:32:43.079
But I mean there were appearances from so many characters

649
00:32:43.079 --> 00:32:46.880
from all five seasons. They briefly appearing it. You know,

650
00:32:46.960 --> 00:32:48.279
things like there were so many of them that I

651
00:32:48.279 --> 00:32:51.079
didn't mention that slipped by. But it's great that they

652
00:32:51.160 --> 00:32:54.160
squeezed everybody in here. So it's probably is someone of

653
00:32:54.839 --> 00:32:57.279
meeting someone with a name that I just I don't remember.

654
00:32:58.000 --> 00:33:01.039
Yeah, a ton of fun cameos though, especially the nod

655
00:33:01.039 --> 00:33:01.880
back to the Twains.

656
00:33:02.759 --> 00:33:08.279
Yeah for the end that yeah.

657
00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:08.480
Well it's just again, it's just a shame that the

658
00:33:08.519 --> 00:33:10.519
the series had to come to an end like this.

659
00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:12.839
I wish we had. I would love to say one

660
00:33:12.839 --> 00:33:14.799
more season, but you know, you can always say that

661
00:33:14.960 --> 00:33:17.839
when you get this kind of goodness out of a show.

662
00:33:18.279 --> 00:33:19.759
It's been fun talking about it too.

663
00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:23.200
It has absolutely and I mean I'll just throw out

664
00:33:23.200 --> 00:33:27.240
another plug to uh if you go to uh titmouse

665
00:33:28.400 --> 00:33:31.519
dot com, I think specific tit mouse stuff is where

666
00:33:31.519 --> 00:33:35.400
they have a shop where you can get shirts, pins,

667
00:33:36.480 --> 00:33:39.279
a lot of swag that shows you love for lower Decks.

668
00:33:39.319 --> 00:33:41.200
I know that when we were at a con recently,

669
00:33:41.680 --> 00:33:44.119
we saw a couple of people actually you know, cosplaying

670
00:33:44.240 --> 00:33:47.079
as Lower Deckers. When you see them, you're just gonna like,

671
00:33:47.079 --> 00:33:48.640
I got to point it out. I gotta say, that's

672
00:33:48.680 --> 00:33:51.599
awesome that you're showing love for it. So if you

673
00:33:51.680 --> 00:33:54.279
have a chance, I would chase down some of that swag,

674
00:33:55.119 --> 00:33:59.160
show Tip Mouse the support that it deserves and maybe

675
00:33:59.160 --> 00:34:00.200
we can get a little bit more.

676
00:34:00.680 --> 00:34:03.200
And also let me mention that if you are missing

677
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Lower Decks and you just want some more. IDW Comics

678
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679
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680
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681
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but you can get a little bit of your fix there.

682
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Yeah, a little more love of Lower Decks, that's for sure.

683
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694
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go back to do Trek dictations again like we did

695
00:35:02.039 --> 00:35:04.679
back towards the beginning of this year. We will dive

696
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down and talk about what we can expect from Star

697
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Trek this year and in the future. All hands brace

698
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699
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701
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